Thomas Friedman speaking at MIT last year (a moving picture!). He talks about his book The World is Flat.
I started looking for pictures that we might be able to use instead of the bonsai plant for our logo space. Nice plant but it doesn't quite mesh with the technology theme. I searched for "tablet groups" hoping to find a picture of students working in a group with one or more tablets. Couldn't find it! What I did find was pretty interesting. This photo includes three centuries of technology. The chalkboard shown behind the screen hit the classroom (Westpoint) in 1801, very early 19th century. Scary that it is still in use 205 years later, the one in the picture might even be the same model! Why not connect a tablet to the projector? On the screen is a PowerPoint presentation with a teacher right in front leading students through a lesson, the teacher is acting as teachers have pretty much all through the 20th century. Sitting on the desks, which are in rows (18th, 19th, 20th, 21st centuries and even earlier) are HP tablet computers, finally a bit of the 21st century. We have the hardware (at least some folks do) but where is the software, the human software that lets students drive their learning?
Thomas Friedman speaking at MIT last year (a moving picture!). He talks about his book The World is Flat.
I started looking for pictures that we might be able to use instead of the bonsai plant for our logo space. Nice plant but it doesn't quite mesh with the technology theme. I searched for "tablet groups" hoping to find a picture of students working in a group with one or more tablets. Couldn't find it! What I did find was pretty interesting. This photo includes three centuries of technology. The chalkboard shown behind the screen hit the classroom (Westpoint) in 1801, very early 19th century. Scary that it is still in use 205 years later, the one in the picture might even be the same model! Why not connect a tablet to the projector? On the screen is a PowerPoint presentation with a teacher right in front leading students through a lesson, the teacher is acting as teachers have pretty much all through the 20th century. Sitting on the desks, which are in rows (18th, 19th, 20th, 21st centuries and even earlier) are HP tablet computers, finally a bit of the 21st century. We have the hardware (at least some folks do) but where is the software, the human software that lets students drive their learning?